California will not renew a $54 million contract with Walgreens over abortion pill policy

California volition not renew a $54 cardinal declaration with Walgreens implicit the drugstore chain's determination not to merchantability the termination pill mifepristone successful immoderate states owed to ineligible restrictions.

"California volition not basal by arsenic corporations cave to extremists and chopped disconnected captious entree to reproductive attraction and freedom," Gov. Gavin Newsom said successful a connection Wednesday. "California is connected way to beryllium the 4th largest system successful the satellite and we volition leverage our marketplace powerfulness to support the close to choose."

Newsom said Monday that the authorities was "done" doing concern with Walgreens. California utilized the declaration to bargain specialty medicine drugs for the situation system. The authorities is reviewing each its concern contracts with Walgreens.

Walgreens, successful a connection Thursday, said it is "deeply disappointed" by California's decision, which the institution blamed connected "false and misleading information."

"Walgreens is facing the aforesaid circumstances arsenic each retail pharmacies, and nary different retail pharmacies person said that they would attack this concern differently, truthful it's unclear wherever this declaration would present beryllium moved," said Fraser Engerman, a institution spokesperson.

"Our presumption has ever been that, erstwhile we are certified by the FDA, Walgreens plans to dispense Mifepristone successful immoderate jurisdiction wherever it is legally permissible to bash so, including the authorities of California," Engerman said.

Republican attorneys wide successful 21 states warned Walgreens successful February that selling oregon distributing the termination pill successful their states would interruption section laws.

The drugstore concatenation told them it would not merchantability oregon message mifepristone successful their states.

The Food and Drug Administration successful January allowed retail pharmacies specified arsenic Walgreens to merchantability mifepristone truthful agelong arsenic they go certified nether an bureau programme that monitors however the pill is utilized and distributed. Walgreens and CVS person said they program to go certified nether that program.

At slightest 12 states person banned termination since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade successful 2022. Several different states have tighter restrictions connected mifepristone than the FDA does.

Walgreens is besides not selling the termination pill successful states specified arsenic Alaska, Kansas and Montana wherever termination is protected arsenic a close nether the states' constitutions.

Alaska requires patients to get the pill from a doctor. In Kansas, the authorities had required patients to get the termination pill successful idiosyncratic from a physician, but a authorities tribunal blocked that instrumentality successful November. Montana's request that patients sojourn a doc to get mifepristone is besides temporarily blocked by a court.

The drugstore concatenation volition besides not merchantability mifepristone successful Iowa, wherever the authorities Supreme Court past twelvemonth overturned authorities law protections for abortion.

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